The Entrance Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1979. Lodge. 4 related planning applications.
The Entrance Lodge
- WRENN ID
- woven-keystone-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- North Bedfordshire MP: Richard Fuller (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1979
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- The Entrance Lodge, Potton Road, Sandy
- OS grid reference
- TL 191 485
- Coordinates
- 52.1221, -0.26121
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Entrance Lodge, built in the 1870s, is a yellow brick structure designed in the Swiss chalet style, possibly reflecting the Swiss cottage that once stood on the site of the main house. It is two storeys tall and features a slate roof with stone dressings. The first floor showcases mock timber-framing and includes six casement windows with geometric glazing bars. The third opening from the left contains a door of a similar style, which leads onto a projecting gabled balcony supported by heavy brackets, adorned with finials and a carved balustrade. The ground floor features three pairs of windows with pointed arched heads and geometric glazing bars in the top lights, while the doorway also has a similar arched head.
Local climate
The Entrance Lodge sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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